URGENTLY NEEDED: Mobile Clinic Vehicle
Our most pressing priority at this time is to raise funds for our MOBILE CLINIC to venture out deeply into the distant provinces and bring life-saving medications and medical care to people who have likely never seen a doctor before.
The mobile clinic must be able to withstand
the punishment of the Gambian [...]
We have entered into an exciting collaboration with the Jamaica Hospital Family Residency Program which is part of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Dr. Reginald Hughes, who is the Director of Family Medicine Obstetrics at Jamaica Hospital, Queens, New York, is also the Founder and President of The African Cultural Exchange [...]
In February of 2007, we undertook a fact-finding mission to the Gambia during which we were able to work at the Jammeh Foundation for Peace Hospital in Serekunda. This experience opened our eyes in more ways than we could have imagined!
At the same time, we were excited and delighted to meet and lecture to the [...]
Through a generous committment to the Clinton Global Initiative, YouTube has created a non-profit initiative which allows 501(c)(3) non-profit corporations to take advantage of a special, enhanced broadband channel to broadcast their message.
We are extremely delighted to have been accepted to this program and to have been given our own channel. Our first two [...]
In February of 2008 our President, Dr. Ingrid Feder Sidibeh, was fortunate to travel to Leeds, England, to visit the Rotary Club of Leeds which had graciously offered an invitation in order to learn about Healing Hands of Gambia.
Dr. Feder Sidibeh had met one of its members - who has since joined our Board of [...]
The Gambia has been called “The Smiling Coast“. Indeed, the people have much to smile about. Old lessons about caring for one’s neighbor and family have not been lost as they have in the “more developed world.” Family ties mean something. People are not forced to struggle alone.
However, poverty is a significant and overwhelming problem. [...]
While Healing Hands of Gambia has no particular religious affiliations and while our board members represent most of the world religions as well as multiple nationalities, we were extremely pleased and grateful when the Trinity Lutheran Church of Vernon, Connecticut, came forward and organized a Coffeehouse Benefit Concert for us. The success of this concert, [...]
